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 <H1>Cluster</H1>
 <H3>Description</H3>
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External executable to monitor MSCS clusters. It will report alerts you when :
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	<LI> the active node has changed
	<LI> one or may group ressources are not online on the active node
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To be sure to get the alert of a node change, it will still report the alarm until you delete a flag file
that was created when the cluster has moved to the other node.
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MSCS Cluster external report only yellow color.
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<H3>Usage</H3>
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Add the executable in a load directive for externals agent. It will generate a report as
others externals scripts. There are no setting available for this external.
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<H3>Examples</H3>
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 <LI>Here an example of report when the active node has changed :
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<b>--- Windows Cluster State ---</b>
<table border=1>
<tr><td>Group Name</td><td>Current Node</td><td>State</td><td>Status</td></tr>

<tr><td>Cluster Group</td><td>MYSERVERBDD02 (recently changed)</td><td>online</td><td><IMG SRC="../yellow.gif" ALT="yellow" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="16" BORDER=0></td></tr>
<tr><td>SQL</td><td>MYSERVERBDD02 (recently changed)</td><td>online</td><td><IMG SRC="../yellow.gif" ALT="yellow" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="16" BORDER=0></td></tr>
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<b>Important Notes :</b>

WARNING !!! active node for group "Cluster Group" has changed. It was MYSERVERBDD01 and now it is MYSERVERBDD02.
To suppress this warning, please connect to the server and execute the command : <i>erase "C:\WINNT\TEMP\NodeChanged_Cluster Group"</i>

WARNING !!! active node for group "SQL" has changed. It was MYSERVERBDD01 and now it is MYSERVERBDD02.
To suppress this warning, please connect to the server and execute the command : <i>erase "C:\WINNT\TEMP\NodeChanged_SQL"</i>

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<H3>Notes</H3>
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 <LI>Need Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Windows 2003
 <LI>This external is not installed by default
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